Bug#379898: exim4-base: Could create cronjob to check paniclog

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-07-26 Andrew Ferrier <andrew at new-destiny.co.uk> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.62-1
> Severity: wishlist

> The exim4 specification recommends creating a cronjob to check that
> paniclog is empty: (see third bullet point from the top)

> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_45.html

> It would useful to have one of these shipped by Debian's exim4 by
> default, probably installed into /etc/cron.d. Presumably it would email
> root if the file wasn't empty.
[...]

Shouldn't this be done by logwatch or similar stuff? Every single
package watching its own logfiles seems a little bit wasteful.
cu andreas
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